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    HSD17B4 methylation enhances glucose dependence of BT-474 breast cancer cells and increases lapatinib sensitivity

    HER2-positive breast cancer has a high chance of achieving pathological complete response when HSD17B4, responsible for peroxisomal β-oxidation of very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFA) and estradiol, is methylation...

    Nobuaki Arai, Naoko Hattori, Satoshi Yamashita in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2023)

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    A feasibility study of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab in Japanese patients with advanced solid tumors

    Combination treatment using lenvatinib (a multikinase inhibitor) plus pembrolizumab (a programmed death-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor) has shown efficacy in the treatment of endometrial and renal cell cancers....

    Shigehisa Kitano, Yutaka Fujiwara, Toshio Shimizu in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2022)

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    DNA methylation marker to estimate ovarian cancer cell fraction

    Evaluation of a cancer cell fraction is important for accurate molecular analysis, and pathological analysis is the gold standard for evaluation. Despite the potential convenience, no established molecular mar...

    Takahiro Ebata, Satoshi Yamashita, Hideyuki Takeshima, Hiroshi Yoshida in Medical Oncology (2022)

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    Risk factors for skeletal-related events in non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with bone-modifying agents

    The risk factors for skeletal-related events (SREs) among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients during treatment with bone-modifying agents (BMAs) are not yet well-understood.

    Go Saito, Takahiro Ebata, Tsukasa Ishiwata, Shunichiro Iwasawa in Supportive Care in Cancer (2021)

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    Dose exploration results from Phase 1 study of cemiplimab, a human monoclonal programmed death (PD)-1 antibody, in Japanese patients with advanced malignancies

    Part 1 of this two-part, open-label, Phase 1 study (NCT03233139) assessed the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, immunogenicity, and clinical activity of cemiplimab in Japanese patients with advanced mali...

    Shigehisa Kitano, Toshio Shimizu, Takafumi Koyama in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2021)

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    Phase I study of the indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 inhibitor navoximod (GDC-0919) as monotherapy and in combination with the PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab in Japanese patients with advanced solid tumours

    Navoximod (GDC-0919) is a small molecule inhibitor of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1. This study investigated the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of navoximod alone and in combination with atezolizuma...

    Takahiro Ebata, Toshio Shimizu, Yutaka Fujiwara, Kenji Tamura in Investigational New Drugs (2020)

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    Improved survival among patients enrolled in oncology phase 1 trials in recent decades

    This study aimed to compare the survival of patients enrolled in phase 1 trials in recent decades.

    Takahiro Ebata, Toshio Shimizu, Takafumi Koyama in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2020)

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    Feasibility of initial treatment in elderly patients with ovarian cancer in Japan: a retrospective study

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the real world situation and clarify the problem in initial treatment for elderly patients with ovarian cancer in Japan.

    Seiko Bun, Mayu Yunokawa, Takahiro Ebata in International Journal of Clinical Oncology (2019)

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    Immunotherapy

    The prognosis of advanced small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer was improved with development of chemotherapy and molecular target therapy but still remains poor. Recently, immunotherapy, espec...

    Takahiro Ebata in Molecular Targeted Therapy of Lung Cancer (2017)

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    Feasibility of dose-dense paclitaxel/carboplatin therapy in elderly patients with ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer

    Weekly dose-dense paclitaxel (PTX) in combination with carboplatin (CBDCA) every 3 weeks (ddTC therapy) is a standard treatment for patients with advanced ovarian cancer. However, there is no detailed analysis...

    Seiko Bun, Mayu Yunokawa, Takahiro Ebata in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology (2016)

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    p53 regulates cytoskeleton remodeling to suppress tumor progression

    Cancer cells possess unique characteristics such as invasiveness, the ability to undergo epithelial–mesenchymal transition, and an inherent stemness. Cell morphology is altered during these processes and this ...

    Keigo Araki, Takahiro Ebata, Alvin Kunyao Guo in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2015)